I think we can live our whole lives happy without academia's take on Facebook, but otherwise wholeheartedly agree with this critique.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1453028053802631170 …
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I think the goal of eradicating this business model is ill-served by further institutionalizing it, and I think it is particularly bad news to create a university-social media complex in the current circumstances of an electorate so heavily polarized along educational lines.
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Princeton PhD says it's time for Facebook to bring academics in the loop to solve all these problems, maybe endow a few chairs why not. I say people are going to need a fast, convenient way to bookmark all this groundbreaking academic research!https://techpolicy.press/journalists-are-exposing-facebooks-problems-well-need-academics-to-solve-them/ …
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My point is Facebook doesn't have to continue to try to discredit academics by paying them directly. All they need to do is make Social Media Studies a thriving discipline—with all the firewalls in the world to guarantee objectivity—and their business model will be ineradicable.
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You’re wrong because with the exception of a few, many those people are already employed by those companies or are already producing “embedded” quasi-PR. There’s a large number of legitimate academics largely or completely shut out exactly because they refuse to play that game.
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So you’re seeing the ones who mostly played along, who exist for sure. I don’t think they’re representative of the modal aspirations of the academics.
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if I could come up with a scam that good, you'd better believe I'd be pushing for it to happen just as fast as it possibly could.
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